After nearly eight years, Windows XP had grown as comfortable as my old house. Just as I’d forgotten about the growing number of dings on my house wall, Windows 7 strips away that ugliness to create something that’s light yet strong, useful yet still playful. Windows 7…

Microsoft ruined Vista’s improvements by adding overly aggressive security, thick layers of meandering menus, and a sense of being designed by a huge committee. Windows 7 strips away that ugliness to create something that’s light yet strong, useful yet still playful.  Windows 7 grabs me in a lot of ways Windows XP no longer does.

Home group Security

With Windows 7, Microsoft finally realized that people don’t need the same level of security on their home networks as they do on the Internet.

Home groups let everybody type a Single password into their networked PCs. Those PCs then join hands to become a Homegroup, where every PC on the network can share all the music, pictures, and videos stored by everyone else. Of course, anybody can opt out of sharing their media. Windows 7’s really a huge step forward from Microsoft Vista, and it’s versatile enough to last for years to come.

But sometimes I feel that Windows 7 is often too much about Microsoft’s needs, rather than our own needs. For example, Windows 7 no longer comes with an e-mail program, so Windows 7 understandably pushes Microsoft’s new Windows Live Mail program as a replacement.

Huge Libraries

Finding the right pieces of that information becomes the biggest challenge. Windows 7’s libraries tackle the organization part of that problem by letting one library show the contents of several folders.

Taskbar Jumplists

Windows 7 overhauled the taskbar with jumplists, popup menus listing frequently accessed items and common tasks.

• Need to see one of your favorite Websites in a hurry? Right-click the taskbar’s browser icon, click the favored site’s name from the pop-up list’s “Frequent” section and the browser opens to that site.
• Can’t remember the location of that helpful folder you opened yesterday? Right-click the Explorer icon, click the folder’s name from the jumplist, and start digging in.

With jumplists, Windows 7 adds a feeling of immediate gratification that all too often went missing from Vista.

Minimal Hardware requirement

Demands of Vista’s bloat kept it from running on netbooks, the PC industry’s single bright spot these days. Windows 7, by contrast, runs fine on most netbooks, as well as on older PCs. needing another test machine while writing Windows 7 For Dummies, I installed Windows 7 on a Pentium III with 16MB of video memory. Surprisingly enough, Windows 7 not only installed, but its automatic trip to Windows Update brought.

More shortcuts Keys

Once you learn a few shortcut keys, they become addictive, and Windows 7 brings several welcome ones.  For example, placing two windows side-by-side on a crowded desktop took a lot of mouse maneuvering in Windows XP. In Windows 7, you click the first window, and press Win+Right Arrow to scoot the window against the right edge. Follow up with a Win+Left Arrow on the second window, and you’ve lined them up side-by-side, ready for quick information swapping.

Windows 7 comes loaded with many other creative keyboard shortcuts, a sign that the team had time to focus on subtle details rather than major overhauls.

Adjustable User Account Controls

Probably the most welcome change is that Windows 7 tones down User Account Control’s overly aggressive policing. But if you still find yourself grinding your teeth more than working, a sliding control lets you adjust Windows 7’s paranoia level to match your own. It’s refreshing to feel in control of your PC rather than the other way around.

These are just some of the new features of Microsoft Windows 7 that I liked. I’m going to surely write more on this, Stay tuned. What’s on your mind? Post your comments below and let us know!

Bastille Day is the French national holiday, celebrated on 14 July each year. In France, it is called Fête Nationale (“National Celebration”) in official parlance, or more commonly le quatorze juillet (“14 July”). It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

The home page of Google Korea has not been like most other Google home pages. Google Korea just got a new menu that can switch between the web, news, images and maps easily.

While it is actually more a click when you want to search for images, but you do not wait until the sample is loaded maps. In Korea, the following Google services are offered in the menu: Web Search, Images, News, Maps, Dictionary, Blog Search, Products, Videos and Scholar.

Google has added many new features to the Google Reader! Now you can follow a friend, Like his\her posts and add comments to their posts and search for peoples Google profiles …

The Profile search can bring more users to Google Reader and you can see what other items they recommend from inside Google Reader.

In the settings you can specify who can see the recommendations and whether recommendations should be open to the public.

By clicking on “I like this” you should be able to give a feedback for the post and it shows how many people like the post and this obviously is something similar to the Facebook page :D ..

Also you have the ability to add comments directly in the Google Reader. So any person who has subscribed to your Feeds in Google reader would be able to read the feed easily and comment on it too…

What do you think of these improvements to Google reader? What do you expect and your Feedback on these new features!!

At least the front page of Google Docs will be in a few months getting a new look. Google announced this in a blog post on the Google Docs blog. In the next few days, changes should only be visible, now we are thinking why change suddenly? There are rumors that its going head on with Microsoft office 2010, since it also has a nice web based service.

Here is whats new in the next release of Google Docs:

– Shared with in the sidebar will soon be “removed”. To search for documents a person shares with you, you can use the advanced search.

– Search Operators for searching Docs

You’ll see these changes happen over the next few weeks. They will be followed shortly by the new interface and a number